Ron's Blog

To create a panic for political advantage is nothing new to the world of politics - but to wander around a powder magazine, while handing out cigars and matches, is nothing short of insanity.  Once before, the leadership of the Republican party made the threat to not allow Congress to raise the Federal debt ceiling.

        As a measure of wealth, gold has a long 3000-year history.  However most people tend to ignore the fact that silver has a similar record. ...

International news is now filled with commentaries on the world’s slowing economy. The fact of that event is beyond question, but the cause has no...

Where and how to begin? Any effort to understand the current status of the United States would be futile, without a clear appreciation of the labor...

The so-called “tax bill” The so-called “tax bill” which is now being jammed through the Reconciliation process, was in part created by the Senate i...

Why is the cost of health care higher in the United States than in any other industrialized nation on Earth? Is it possible that the answer is so o...

A very well-known libertarian-leaning politician has taken to television and the internet to voice a threat of an economic disaster on the horizon...

As always, it is painful to write in such terms as "Us vs. Them" however when one considers the mark of a man or women as the measure of their act...